I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

Minimal art went nowhere.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.